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Brother is one of the VERY few companies I'd choose without thinking twice. At least in terms of printers. So far, only had good experiences. And now I realize
by Akronymus 4y ago
Brother is one of the VERY few companies I'd choose without thinking twice. At least in terms of printers. So far, only had good experiences.
And now I realize that sounds like astroturfing.
- tailspin2019 4y agoAgreed. Brother (laser) printers are extremely reliable in my experience too. I’ve been using them for close to 20 years now. HP probably would have been my only other choice if/when I have to replace my superb (and crazy cheap) Brother B&W laser but after reading this post I will never go near HP printers again. Edit: just read about Brother’s nasty firmware update elsewhere in the comments here. Sigh. I guess I’ll just have to stop buying printers altogether.
- justinclift 4y agoUnfortunately, Brother also seems to have switched to pulling this kind of crap recently too. :( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
- Akronymus 4y agoWell... time to flip some tables.
- Psype 4y agoThere's still Ricoh. I literally found a big one in the streets that worked perfectly (I suppose the small company that was at this address needed something bigger). Generic cartridges are just find and you refill them easily.
- jleahy 4y agoI have a Kyocera color laser, no nonsense, it’s a great printer and works fine out of the box with both Linux and iDevices.
- seanp2k2 4y agoI’ve had good luck with the Epson LABELWORKS LW-PX400 label printer and they’re projectors, but yeah for printing now we just pay the $0.05c/page at ups or FedEx or wherever.
- chrisandchris 4y agoFascinating. I wouldn't at any time choose Brother. A friend of mine got a new Mac with a new OS. Printer was around 4-5 years old. There was no support on the new OS at all. With a lot of luck one could print b&w, but color never worked again. I never experienced that using HP or Xerox.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoWas your friend using os9 or something? Until it finally bit the dust last week I had a 10 year old Brother printer (MFC 7440 or something like that) that worked fine on both Windows and Mac versions up through High Sierra
- chrisandchris 4y agoCan't remember it exactly. Is already a year ago. It was some kind of color laser and the latest OS X at that time. The support forums were full of posts describing the same issue and the (only) unofficial solution was to fiddle with ither drivers or a generic PS and sonehow be lucky to make color printing work again. I gave up after an hour or two. IMHO, those are mostly personal experiences that lead to preferred manufacturers. For each story where one tells you he never had any issue you'll find one that for sure had issues.
- fsckboy 4y ago> There was no support on the new OS at all. With a lot of luck one could print b&w, but color never worked again. I never experienced that using HP or Xerox. the cost of the old Brother and then a new Brother at that point would have been cheaper than the cost of either the HP or the Xerox and if you were using linux (and almost as often Windows too), the old drivers would have still worked.
- zerof1l 4y agoI own a secondhand Brother inkjet printer. I bought it on eBay under the influence of posts like these. TLDR, they now DRM their cartridges. Each ink cartridge has a chip in it. One of the first experiences I had was my printer refusing a back ink cartridge. I had to throw away a full cartridge.
- arglebargle123 4y agoWe recently bought a brother aio to replace my mom's previous HP Deskjet aio, zero issues with it from phones, laptops, desktops, etc. I'd still recommend them in a heartbeat.